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The FTSE 100 Index closed Thursday down 0.3% at 7599 points, dragged by financial and consumer-goods stocks, on the back of increasing concerns over a further rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve, CMC Markets UK chief market analyst Michael Hewson say... | 12:07pm

Shell Needs to Build Upstream Longevity 1118 GMT - Shell needs to show it can fund its dividend from its core business in a sustainable way to build a positive investment case, as the expected... | June 8, 2023

The indispensable alliance. well delve beneath the white house flummery to find out what that might really contribute to the uk economy. also tonight — britains betting big on quantum for everthing from medicine to ai. well ask whether the old saga of world—beating innovation being exploited by others is about to be repeated? the uk quantum technologies programme rests on a relatively small number of people. and if they do move for whatever reason then it does become fragile. those german—...

Governments bills. warning signs starting to flash here very clearly for the white house and the congressional negotiators, who we know have been working around the clock to try and reach an agreement, making some progress but still we know that some major sticking points remain. we will see if this lights a fire under them going forward. >> yeah. significant sticking points, as we heard from manu. so, june 5th, a week from monday. as we noted, the treasury initially said as early as june 1. the...

Things stand right now. on the brink. can they come together? there are still some signs of progress over the issue of cutting spending. republicans have -- democrats have moved in the republican direction on that issue, and the length of a debt ceiling increase. theyre talking about extending it through the 2024 elections. that would be something that the democrats want, but even if a deal is reached, getting the votes is going to be a new complicated task. already, house republicans are planni...

HGAR and six other REALTOR® associations will be hosting a second annual Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) summit in Tarrytown, New York.

Elsmere island. that sounded like the most horrific trip i can ever imagine. his partner went down from kidney failure. he got attacked by a walrus. >> i love this stuff. money is not what im chasing. its the experience. >> the put-in is going to take us two days to kind of just start making progress. and after that, we still have, like, seven question mark box canyon to get to the landing zone, plus some whitewater. so there is no way we make this in eight days. i think realistically it will fo...

Throwing in permitting reform. and a couple other dogs and cats as we say in legislative terms, but the time crunch cannot be overstated. there are 16 days between now and june 1st. that is not a lot of time to get a bill through both chambers. especially when it takes a week to get anything through the senate and theres no bit, theres no even framework thats been agreed to between the republicans and democrats so far so theyre really behind the 8 ball here and im not sure how theyre going to ge...

Six days at the staff level, thats what theyve been able to be productive on. identify areas where they can come together today, like spending cuts and raising the debt ceiling, that they couldnt really get to last week. so if theres any progress, its incremental, but its there. the big question is what happens in todays meeting that pushes it a tiny bit further. >> so i ask is a compromise even possible in a divided congress. what mccarthy wants and what the democrats want, theyre very far apar...

Like a five alarm fire because they need to start making progress. its tuesday. and they dont even have a framework yet. >> lets play what janet yellen said in full about whats going to happen if congress does not act. >> default could cause widespread suffering as americans lose the income they need to get by. and the resulting income shock could lead to a recession that destroys many american jobs and businesses. the u.s. economy hangs in the balance. the livelihoods of millions of americans d...